Words similar to cousin

Example sentences for: cousin

How can you use “cousin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He was replaced as caliph by his cousin, whose powers were strictly limited by secular laws, until that position, too, was abolished in 1924.
The English queen kept her cousin in captivity for 20 years and finally had her beheaded on a trumped-up charge of treason.
William Kennedy Smith, their cousin, went out on the town with Uncle Teddy, brought home a woman, and ended up being tried unsuccessfully for rape.
Ten years ago when I was a legal services program director in Iowa, the private bar was either our adversary or a somewhat disfavored cousin in the family of legal services.
Keeping it all in the family, you get your cousin Benny, fresh out of law school and eager for work, to argue that the public has come to love and trust the Widget Terminator and that people will be confused and deceived by the similarity of the name of the rival WidgetBuster.